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... letters have been drawn out from every lurk- ing place , and have been given to the world in masses and in detachments . His battles have been fought over and over again , and his state papers have undergone an almost verbal examination ...
... letters have been drawn out from every lurk- ing place , and have been given to the world in masses and in detachments . His battles have been fought over and over again , and his state papers have undergone an almost verbal examination ...
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... letters and speeches and mes- sages fill many volumes , but they are all on busi- ness . They are profoundly silent as to the writer himself . From this Carlyle concluded apparently - that there was nothing to tell , a very INTRODUCTION ...
... letters and speeches and mes- sages fill many volumes , but they are all on busi- ness . They are profoundly silent as to the writer himself . From this Carlyle concluded apparently - that there was nothing to tell , a very INTRODUCTION ...
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... letter of his , explaining that he could not appear at the first trial because he was about to baptize his son , and had bidden the neigh- bors and gossips to the feast . A little incident this , dug out of the musty records , but it ...
... letter of his , explaining that he could not appear at the first trial because he was about to baptize his son , and had bidden the neigh- bors and gossips to the feast . A little incident this , dug out of the musty records , but it ...
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... letter from her brother , Joseph Ball , an English lawyer . In all the ornamented versions we are informed that the boy was to enter the royal navy , and that a mid- shipman's warrant was procured for him . There does not appear to be ...
... letter from her brother , Joseph Ball , an English lawyer . In all the ornamented versions we are informed that the boy was to enter the royal navy , and that a mid- shipman's warrant was procured for him . There does not appear to be ...
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... letter of October last , I have not slept above three or four nights in a bed , but , after walking a good deal all the day , I have lain down before the fire upon a little hay , straw , fodder , or a bearskin , whichever was to be had ...
... letter of October last , I have not slept above three or four nights in a bed , but , after walking a good deal all the day , I have lain down before the fire upon a little hay , straw , fodder , or a bearskin , whichever was to be had ...
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